The foghorns and whistles have all gone silent with Carnival coming to an end. Its been an amazing two days despite the sporadic heavy rain and winds. In true London fashion, the weather didn’t stop close to a million people from doing what they needed to do – which is party hard in the Grove.  The mad kick off of the famous paint, flour, and egg fight was as always in top form as participants and spectators jeered away. It’s the craziest thing that you’ll be grateful to watch and not join in. Trust me!

Besides checking out a couple sound stages along the tiny corner streets, I always look forward to the trip down to West Row where Norman Jay has been parking his Good Times Sound System there for the last 30 years.  Squished in the jubilation of  crowd, you feel like today’s irie music selection is most likely the same set you would of heard in the early days of Good Times double decker bus. You can always count on Norman Jay to make history still present. It’s so sad to see city’s best feel good moment pass- along with our summer days. We still got next year’s Carnival to look forward to…right?! That’s ages away!

In the meantime here is a tune to fall in the rapture of – courtesy of Uproot Andy’s “El Botellon.” Definitely reminds me of this bank holiday gone past. Stream it here and have your own little jump up at your desktop. Don’t worry no ones watching.